#the last major plot point

[wigglebox]

Destiel Pride - Day 5; Cursed or not

[zarvasace]

If you’re still doing sketch requests, Shatterproof Hyrule my beloved? If I missed the window no worries <3

He also wears red :)

[waitineedaname]

I think the best part about scum villain is realizing how much insane stuff I saw out of context is actually canon. Shen Qingqiu is a mushroom at one point. Airplane does yell at one of his characters to call him daddy. Shen Qingqiu does tell Binghe if he was his mother he wouldn't abort him. What the fuck is this series

[vulpinesaint]

kind of unfortunate that so many fantasy epics are also war novels because i will be honest i just do not like war novels that much... the grand clashing of forces is compelling obviously but it requires characters to talk about so much practical battle strategy and while i can get my brain to comprehend all these fantasy maps and kingdoms and borders and battalions and front lines and army movements it takes up. so much space in the book. feels like i'm fighting a war of my own trying to get through it sometimes

[bagel-with-creamcheese]

Made my entire household go watch Red One at the theatre just so I could witness whiney Chris Evans on the big screen.

[michaeljoncarter]

this sounds so lame, but it's honestly like. actually upsetting to me that the absolutely INSANE bg3 retcon version of sarevok is the only version of the character 99% of people will ever be aware of. they took what was easily one of the most interesting, complex characters in the history of gaming and did this randomass retcon that completely character assassinated him, rewrote his entire background (and large chunks of the original bg series??), and retconned him into a comically evil, one dimensional, painfully boring cartoon villain for literally NO REASON?????

i know people comparing literally everything to atla is annoying, but genuinely the closest comparison i can think to try to convey how insane this decision was is like. imagine if legend of korra brought zuko back but only for like a 2 minute cameo where they did nothing but make it canon that he went insane immediately after the events of the original series, turned out to be a p/dophile who abused his own daughter, and started working to put his abusive father back on the throne. and then they immediately killed him off and just NEVER brought him or any of that up ever again ??????

like really truly what the fuck was that

[rimmerslustmonster]

I really wanted to love Arcane but after watching all of it I still find the majority of it really unfulfilling. Like, the animation really is gorgeous (as in, I literally think it's the prettiest/most smoothly animated show I've ever seen in my life and the action sequences especially were incredible) and I found basically all of the characters and their relationships initially really compelling but ultimately it just felt really empty to me.

So many characters' decisions/motivations (not all--there are a handful of obvious choices) seemed to shift aimlessly depending on what music video the creators wanted to make at the time, and the fact that the vast majority of characters actions feels reactionary to whatever outside force (the arcane/hex tech/black rose/whatever) they decided to invoke at the time was really annoying to me. Reactionary character choices aren't inherently bad, but when you have certain characters that everyone in the show plays up as strategic geniuses or powerhouses or whatever and then they also end up just kind of drifting along with whatever is thrown in to get them to end up wherever they ultimately need to be like dust motes and they don't end up being the actuators of basically anything at all in the end it's just fucking irritating tbh. (Especially thinking of season 2 Ambessa here--so much of what she found/achieved was basically by chance and it didn't feel like a coherent effort of her own that actually ended up getting her anywhere and maybe that's a commentary on the opportunistic nature of power or something but it still sucked imo because of how often everyone talked about what a great strategist she is and how dangerous/formidable she was in her own right and she just kind of wasn't in the end because the things she consciously put such a big investment in immediately fell apart for her so it was like... what was the fucking point? she could've been so much fucking better).

It felt like half the stuff that happened didn't happen in service of some overarching message or story but to fulfill vibes and the drama of it. Which again isn't inherently bad but there was just so much of it. Too many things felt like they fell into place 'just so' despite nothing the characters doing as individuals really feeling like it earned them that place. I do think they managed to pull a decent amount of it together in the end, but frankly it's only out of spite I ended up watching the final episode anyway, and you really shouldn't be counting on viewers to do that.

Anyway. Ultimately I guess it's just not for me I think, and the parts of it I did like (style, animation, themes, certain characters) didn't make trying to internally patch the parts I didn't (what felt to me like inconsistent characterization, mishandling themes/messages) to make it work for me feel like it worth the effort so in the end I really can't be bothered to care about it beyond just finishing the series and that makes me kinda sad.

As a show it was fine. The finale did a pretty good job of wrapping some things up mostly satisfyingly enough but damn it was hard to get there.

[ouransisters]

Rewatching by the grace of the gods and dear god imagine being that Duke family

Just your bodyguard is dying in this forest and then suddenly there's this wild child with really broken japanese- who barely even flinches at having a sword pointed at his neck- strolls up with this miracle medicine that's actually working. Now this kid is leading you to his home, you're thinking the kid's probably with the bandits (at this point maybe even the bear was in on it too) but no. This kid has tamed a metric shit-ton of slimes, used magic a kid shouldn't be playing around with just to hide his home, and his home is obviously furnished for only one child sized person. This is a fantasy world and now you're reasonably suspicious that this is just a being that looks like a human child, especially cause wild child here suddenly knows how to speak to a noble, but no the crystal ball says this is just an 11 y/o kid. Now it's been a while since you've been a kid, but your daughter is precocious little thing and she's nothing like Charles Darwin over here

You come back again with your family, because why not, and not only get an unknown slime as your daughters first tamed monster, but use his little crush on her to get him to come with you to the city. Sue me, but it pulls on your heartstrings as a father and the kid could be very good for your family's prospects. The kid shows off a little on what types of magic he can use, pulls his weight, and his resourcefulness is probably what kept him alive these past 3 years. He's very resourceful.... (terrifyingly resourceful what the fu-)

Now you're taking the kid to the adventurers guild so he can have some protection, and a source of income with little kiddie jobs, but his skill with a bow reminds you that this child survived for 3 years alone in the woods. You are also reminded that this kid likely has the gods blessings, but you can't even be mad because to get the physical and mental resistance stats this kid has? The Gods' favor is not worth that suffering

Now you're hoping everything has quieted down and you can just lead the kid to be well socialized, but he comes out of the left gate with evidence of embezzlement and a potential epidemic. The worst part is that the utter efficiency and determination the kid uses to take care of it is arguably more terrifying than the epidemic itself.

And now you've had a day to see how the kid uses magic, how quickly he can master new techniques, and humbled at how he spends hours on end on things he can't immediately master. You decide he should have some supervised battle against some low level monsters, simple. You then get the report on how he used magic just to harden his skin to take out 4 giant razor sharp praying mantises with daggers, and you remember how when you first met the kid he mentioned sometimes running into bandits, and you realize that this child has absolutely killed a man. Only to turn around to find that he used alchemy to turn some dirt into a shining pure iron ingot. You rush to do some damage control and introduce a reputable merchant, but then you look at all of the kid's goods and realize you have little Alexander Graham Bell here. This kid is going to shake things up, probably spark an industrial revolution focused on fucking slimes, and by the gods your family will be riding on the wave of this kids success.

And that's just by episode 5

[mxtxfanatic]

Because I saw that 7seas released the first volume, I'm very curious of what you thought about the disabled tyrant's pet palm fish? I wasn't sure what your tag for it is, assuming you've posted about it here. If you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them since, as of this moment in time, I'm planning on picking up a copy next time I get the chance.

Of course you pick the novel I was conflicted about promoting LOL

So I read it and mostly liked it, like, a majority of the book is comedic and engaging. The beginning really gives a Cinderella-esque romance along with some mild court drama. Definitely a light read that won’t leave you too anxious or in suspense.

However I feel like ableism is baked into the plot in a way that becomes unbearably inescapable around the last 2-300 pages. It sat with me pretty unpleasantly that that love interest’s disability (mutism) is never accommodated in the entire story, not even by the people who love him in the setting, not even by his transmigrating husband who I know for damn sure knows sign language exists even if he doesn’t know it. They could have found some way to communicate with him that didn’t involve him mouthing words, writing, or having people just learn to read his micro-expressions, of which only one person can do so. I was willing to table these reservations because, despite the story pretending like disability accommodations don’t exist, the people who love this character never make him feel bad or less for it. Then those last few hundred pages hit…

Spoilers for some plot stuff: So the biggest issue for me that tipped the ableism into unbearable emerges with the sideplot of the main couple trying for another kid. MC wants a girl because they already have 4 boys (accidental quadruplets), only to discover that LI has been secretly taking contraceptives to prevent another pregnancy for fear that any pregnancy could result in a mute child, as he thinks his mutism is genetic. The couple end up having a good talk where the LI opens up about his insecurities about having a child like him because he knows how lonely it was growing up with his disability. But instead of turning this into a moment where MC could point out that their hypothetical disabled child wouldn’t be lonely because they would have a whole family who loved them—including a parent with the same disability—that LI should not have been isolated because of his disability, that he was the one who was failed not the failure, and that he (and their hypothetical disabled child) will be supported from now on, the author… has the MC agree and stop trying for a kid… Complete missed opportunity and waste of time in the long run, because not long after this it gets revealed that LI’s mutism isn’t genetic, which is why their 4 sons have no speech issues, and they go on happily to have their daughter. End Spoilers.

If you didn’t read the spoilers, then long story short: a side plot with eventual major implications for the main story arc treats preventing the birth of potentially disabled children as a reasonable thing because “those children will be isolated, otherwise,” while neglecting the idea that people—PARTICULARLY LOVED ONES OF THE DISABLED—can simply accommodate said disability. The story simply pretends as if accommodations for mutism do not exist in material reality or even as a concept.

[keyleth-clay]

Been seeing a bunch of takes about the Raven Queen "recently" - from CR themselves, not even from the fandom - that have been making me incredibly salty (example 1, example 2), but I don't know if I have the patience or brain power to write a whole rant about my perspective on this and also I don't particularly enjoy being salty...

So, I'll just link this excellent post by @your-turn-to-role instead 😊

[jooniely]

If you read book series, I have a question for you: how do you remember everything and everyone when a new book comes out? Especially if you read the last one a while ago?

[thatfriendlyanon]

new ask game: ask me about the deep green please i'm ready to ramble about it so hard

[renjirukia]

i’ve said this before but kubo tite’s ability to write interpersonal drama with all the small and big messy emotions that come with being a person is what really grounds the story. like i don’t read bleach for the plot im here for the pathos

[ridiculously-over-obsessed]

Also exciting news for tmwyh fans, I'm probably about two thirds done with the new chapter after months of inconsistency, and hopefully I'll have this installment of the Barden Med series all done and dusted by next month maybe?? And then onto other projects while I plan out the timeline for part two ✌🏻

[tvok]

hey im interested in getting into ygo do u have any recs or recommended orders of reading/watching theres a lot from the looks of it on anilist so i was wondering about your preferences o:

ANON I ABSOLUTELY DOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I'm only about halfway through the sequels (i just started arc-v) so I'm not like the most knowledgable person in the world but I can give you my personal recs. COME CLOSER!!!!!

First of all, every yugioh series is totally independent from each other (sort of - gx is set directly after dm and leans on its worldbuilding quite a bit, and 5ds takes place in the same universe as well though a bit further in the future, but you can watch them on their own with no problem) so if there's one in particular that grabs you there's nothing stopping you from jumping straight to it - that being said I've been watching all of the anime in release order (ygo dm -> gx -> 5ds -> zexal -> arc-v (i am here) -> vrains -> sevens -> go rush) and I've been enjoying it a lot. I also wouldn't recommend watching arc-v in particular without having watched the ones before it as it probably won't really have any impact for you. Now for specific recommendations (in order) !!!! SORRY THIS GOT REALLY LONG.

yugioh manga - START HERE !!!!! the original story by kazuki takahashi. high school boy inherits an ancient magical artifact containing a spirit that's really, really good at playing games (and inflicting psychological torment on bullies). I have to give it a warning for some shonen-typical creepiness towards female characters in the early chapters, but it's REALLY worth reading and it's a story that's so near and dear to my heart. this is the fastest and easiest way to start loving yugioh. Its worth noting that the original ygo manga is the ONLY manga (afaik) that tells the same story as its anime + i haven't read any of the others aside from a little bit of the gx manga, so the rest of my recs are anime-only

(optional) yugioh season 0 / 1998 / toei - a one-season anime based on the early manga chapters. if you like the horror vibes of the manga you'll enjoy this a lot. really fun 90s animation with a killer soundtrack, but generally not considered """canon"""

yugioh duel monsters - this is the one most people watched as a kid. it's an adaptation of the manga, but with most of the early chapters cut out so as to get straight to the card games + some extra arcs added in. this is most people's favorites and the most popular! you can also watch this in lieu of the manga, but you will be missing a LOT of the early story or experiencing it in condensed form (and the plot of ygo dm is already patchy At Best).

yugioh gx - direct anime sequel to ygo dm. boy goes to gamer school to become the next king of games + high school shenanigans ensue. gx is a really charming, goofy romp with a super lighthearted s1, an interesting s2 and a shockingly engrossing s3. s4 (the last 25 episodes or so) never got dubbed in english so if you're a dub enjoyer like me you'll have to switch to subs to get the full story

yugioh 5ds - direct sequel to gx, though further in the future than gx was to dm. card games on motorcycles are real and so is class warfare and the surveillance state. iirc this is the only yugioh anime that was rated 4+ - it has a slightly more mature tone but there's still plenty of lighthearted fun to be had. Really strong s1 with a second season that falls off a little bit, at least to me, but is still absolutely worth watching. s2 is missing a number of episodes in the english dub, so again if you're a dub enjoyer you will find yourself quite confused by the end. its probably worth watching s2 entirely sub-only (something i still need to do)

yugioh zexal - the first of the sequels that is possibly set in a different universe entirely (or just the really distant future). middle school boy gets a magic necklace from his dad that has an alien inside. zexal is a lot of peoples favorites and now that I've watched it I GET IT. Really strong story + pacing from beginning to end and a really endearing cast of characters. It's silly and goofy and fun but DAMN DOES IT COHERE.

yugioh arc-v - the first of the sequels that is DEFINITELY set in a different universe entirely. this is the one I'm watching currently so i don't have much to say about it yet GET BACK TO ME ON THIS ONE. this one boy's dream is to become the greatest clown who ever lived (tragic) (inspiring)

INHALES LOUDLY. that was probably more info than you wanted BUT I HOPE THAT HELPED AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT? again I recommend reading the original ygo manga first and i think that will give you a good idea of whether you are down with the yugioh silliness or not. It's important to remember that this is a very silly anime series about card games but like. As long as you can buy into the worldbuilding and accept that this is just How Things Are in the world of ygo, it's suuuuuuuch a fun world to sink your teeth into.

[entomolog-t]

Some questions for/about your lovely characters:

Bram - 8 - Do complex puzzles intrigue or frustrate them?

Dawn - 15 - What would they consider a waste of time– other than school or work?

June - 30 - What would they do if they knew it would be forgiven?

Aedes - 26 - Talent or effort?

Bram hates complex puzzles, with strategy games occasionally being an exception (except if he's losing) so he is not at all happy about his current "charades/signing" situation. He's liable to throw things💀

Dawn is very much "There's a time and place for everything" for the majority of things- minus TV. Girlie can't stand sitting down and wasting time on what she would consider "absolutely nothing." She's got far too many chores and far too little sleep to consider watching TV.

OOF- June would probably be a lot more hands on with Aedes, as long as he wasn't full on panicking. On a less intense scale, if she could get away with it she'd "accidentally" spill something on him. That white shirt is just begging to get wet- I don't make the rules 🤷‍♀️

This is actually a concept that gets explored in Bite Me coincidentally. Aedes is naturally very talented and at the current moment, does not inherently value effort. Not in the sense he thinks it's bad, but his life style doesn't really lead him to being able to explore his own talents, and dedication to a skill is a lot higher up in Maslov's hierchy of needs than where this man is dwelling, so it's just not really a concern for him.